You can never find perfection apart from God
For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. —Romans 7:18-19 Listen to who’s talking. This is Paul, in my view the greatest Christian who ever lived, the man who wrote thirteen New Testament books by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. […]
Receive God’s great gift
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. —Romans 6:23 When we share our faith with others, we love telling the good-news part, don’t we? We love to talk about the love of God, the grace of God, the power of God […]
Transformation starts with God
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. —Romans 6:20-22 There’s an epidemic I’ve noticed in the church, so many people giving little or no real evidence of conversion, of a changed life. And I […]
How do you win the war?
Just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity… so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. —Romans 6:19 Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a classic story in the nineteenth century about a man with two natures living in one body. There was Dr. Jekyll, kind, gracious, benevolent. And there […]
What master are you serving?
Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? —Romans 6:16-18 History tells us that when the slaves were liberated at the end of the Civil War, […]